A WOMAN alerted police when she received a threat to burn her alive on Facebook.

Dale Joseph Hughes, 26, wrote her a personal message saying: “Wrong move grassing on me” and threatened to get her children “one by one”.

In a further message he wrote: “Go to the police again and I will burn you alive and sit watching.”

The woman did not know Hughes and alerted police after replying: “I don’t even know you, you idiot.”

That was in September and the following month Hughes, of Abbey Court in Greenfield, damaged a door at his mother’s home and threatened her.

Flintshire magistrates’ court at Mold was told yesterday that when Hughes was released from prison his mother had made it clear he could not return home. She gave him his clothes at the door, but he became angry when she closed the door and smashed the glass.

He was heard to shout: “I am going to kill you.”

But Hughes admitted a public order offence on the basis that he was threatening to kill himself, not his mother.

He admitted damage and sending the menacing Facebook message.

District Judge Andrew Shaw remanded him in custody pending sentence.

The court heard his mother would be seeking a restraining against him. Hughes was said to have alcohol and mental health problems.